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No, he’s just being matter of fact about it.He's not thanking God for the affliction like the apostles in acts and expressing ill will.
You think that’s a comforting answer?I know-I did. So obviously I would not say that God wanted this happen to you, whether He was on-duty or not. So what's your answer?
I deeply apologize. I didn’t know that the simple question needed that much of an explanation.OK in your question who is "He"? God the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit, or Larry from accounting? What aspect of the cross are you specifically referring to? That a piece of wood was formed into a cross? And when you say decreed I need to know whether you are using the planet Earth definition that we can find in the dictionary, or the HammsterLand definition used only by the inhabitants of HammsterLand. The original question is too vague. When you ask and answer such a vaguely worded question, only you know what you mean. The rest of the universe has no idea what you mean. That is why you are having a conversation with yourself.
i didn't ask you if it was a comforting answer, or even suggest that it was. In fact I didn't offer an answer at all -I only asked if you'd tell the victim that God wanted them to be abused.You think that’s a comforting answer?
No, I wouldn’t. That would be awful.i didn't ask you if it was a comforting answer, or even suggest that it was. In fact I didn't offer an answer at all -I only asked if you'd tell the victim that God wanted them to be abused.
Not all of us are familiar with the definitions used on the planet on which you reside, unfortunately.I deeply apologize. I didn’t know that the simple question needed that much of an explanation.
No, God the Father did not command Judas to betray our Lord, he did not command the Sanhedrin to put him on trial, and he did not command the roman soldiers to drive nails into his limbs and hang him on the cross. He allowed these sins to occur in keeping with his ultimate plans for redeeming mankind.Was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ decreed by God Father?
Our conversations are always interesting.No, he’s just being matter of fact about it.
No, it’s not. Even a biblically accurate answer wouldn’t be emotionally satisfying in a lot of cases.Ya, it's not a particularly easy question as I see it.
I ask if it was decreed, not if every aspect was commanded. If the Father wanted it to happen, it would happen just as He wanted it to.Not all of us are familiar with the definitions used on the planet on which you reside, unfortunately.
No, God the Father did not command Judas to betray our Lord, he did not command the Sanhedrin to put him on trial, and he did not command the roman soldiers to drive nails into his limbs and hang him on the cross. He allowed these sins to occur in keeping with his ultimate plans for redeeming mankind.
I try.Our conversations are always interesting.
Definition of DECREEI ask if it was decreed, not if every aspect was commanded. If the Father wanted it to happen, it would happen just as He wanted it to.
Yes, God's perfect will is not playing out at this time.So God's will is all should be saved and none should perish, and yet creation can choose to perish?
So I guess this means God does not see his will played out?
If only there were more definitions than that.
How about Webster’s?Yeah I don't have a copy of John Calvin's Pocket Dictionary.
That is, of course, your view of what happens. We don't know what little or lot he does, except what we see, and even that is interpreted by us according to our values.I recall a king whom God gave a long leash just to "see what was in his heart"
The Genesis pattern seems to be in harmony with how God acts in the rest of Scripture.
He tends to only get obviously involved when things are being established, then in quiet ways in the inbetween periods.
I have the app.Can't find it. Do you have a web-link to that dictionary?
Besides, you posted a definition of a noun. In your initial question you used "decree" as a verb, not as a noun. Giving me a definition of a noun does not tell me what definition of the verb you are using.
Alright. Was your question:I have the app.
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2: to determine or order judicially
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